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No. 625,530. Patented May 23, |899.

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ADVERTISING MEDIUM.

(Application fixed Dee. 27, 1897.) (N o M n d el Tn: Nonms Pneus co. Mofo-unc.. wAsumaToN. n. c.

'iUNrTnn STATES PATENT Ormes,

JOIIN A. ANIELLO, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH O. THEARD, OF SAME PLACE.

ADVERTISING MEDIUM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,530, dated May 23, 1899.

Application tiled December 27, 1897. Serial No. 663,649. (No model.)

"0 (all whom t may concern:

'3e it known that I, JOHN A. ANIELLO, of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Advertising Medium, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. w

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved advertising medium in the form of a vehicle arranged to attract great attent-ion while being drawn through the streets, over roads, or other highways.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as

will be fully described hereinafter and pointed,

ont in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a sectional side elevation of the improvement, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

A vehicle is provided with a wagon-body A, mounted on front wheels B and rear wheels C, of which the latter are secured on an axle O, carrying a pulley C2, connected by a belt C3 with a pulley O4, secured on a longitudinally-extending shaft D, journaled in suitable bearings in the bottom of the wagon-body A, as is plainly indicated in the drawings, the belt O3 extending through an opening in the bottom of the Said wagon-body.

When the vehicle is drawn forward, the wheels O in rotating the axle C also rotate the pulleys O2, whichby the belt C3 and the pulleys C4 rotate the shaft D, the latter serving to impart a traveling motion to endless bands F F, arranged in window-openings A A2 formed in the sides of the vehicle-body A, The rotary motion of the shaft D is also used for actuating an organ located within the said vehicle-body, and the shaft is further used for actuating a trap-door H, carrying a figure I, carrying bells and arranged to appear and disappear in an opening A2, arranged in front of the Wagon-body. Y

As shown in the drawings, a number of advertising-bands vF F arc used on each side of the wagon-body, and the bands F are mounted on rollers F2 and F3, journaled in suitable bearings in the wagon-body. Similar rollers F4 and F5 are used for the bands F on the other side of the wagon-body.

In order to impart a traveling motion to the bands F F while the vehicle is traveling along, I provide the following mechanism: On the shaft D, preferably near one end thereof, is secured a sprocket-wheel J, connected byasprocket-chain J with a sprocketwheel J2 on the roller F2, and on this roller is arranged a sprocket-Wheel J3, connected by a transverse sprocket-chain J4 with a sprocketwheel J 5, attached to the upper roller F4. When the shaft D is rotated, rotary motion is transmitted by the means described to the upper rollers F2 F4 to impart a traveling inotion to the bands F F. Thus the advertisements arranged on the bands F F appear and disappear in the openings A A2 and can be read by the persons attracted t0 the wagon.

In order to actuate the organ G, I provide the shaft D with a pulley K, over which passes a belt K, also passing over aQpulley K2, secured on the crank-shaft G of an ordinary organ G.

A platform H is 'hinged at H to the front of the vehicle-body and is adapted to rest normally on cleats H2, iXed to the wagonbody.

In order to impart a swinging motion to the platform H and the figure I, carried thereby, I provide the shaft D with a pulley L, over which passes a belt L, also passing over a pulley L2, secured on a transverse shaft L3, journaled in suitable bearings arranged Within the vehicle-body. On the shaft L3 is attached an arm L4, adapted to engage the free endv of the platform H, so as to swing the same upward to tilt the figure I into and partlyout of the opening A3 in the front of the vehiclebody, so that the figure is clearly visible by persons in the street, special attention being attracted by the figure and the sounding of the bells carried by said figure. lVhen the arm L4 leaves the free end of the platform H, then the latter swings down gradually to its resting position on the cleats H2, the platform and figure being counterbalanced by a rope H2, passing over a pulley H3 and carrying a weight H4. l

Itis evident that when the device is dragged IOO along in the street motion is given to the endless advertising-bands F F'. At the same time music is produced within the vehiclebody to attract attention, and in addition the figure I appears periodically in the opening and the bells ring to further attract attention to the advertising medium.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. An advertising medium comprising a wheeled vehicle, a shaft mounted to turn in the vehicle-bod y and arranged to be driven by the movement of the vehicle, advertisingbands mounted to travel and moved from the said shaft, a platform carrying a figure appearing through an opening in the vehiclebody, the said platform being mounted to swing, and means actuated from the shaft for imparting a swinging motion to the said platform, substantially as shown and described.

2. In an advertising medium, a wheeled vehicle provided with a body, a shaft mounted to turn in the vehicle-body and arranged to be driven by the movement of the vehicle, a shaft adapted when turned to operate a musical instrument located within the vehiclebody, the said shafts being each provided with a pulley and a belt passing over the said pulleys, substantially as set forth.

3. In an advertising medium, a wheeled vehicle provided with a body, a platform arranged within the vehiclebody and hinged thereto and normally resting on a support iXed to the wagon-body, the said platform carrying a figure appearing through an opening in the vehicle-body, a shaft journaled in the vehicle-body adjacent to the free end of the platform and provided with an arm adapted to engage the free end of the platform so as to swingthesame upward, a shaft arranged to be driven by the movement of the vehicle, a driving connection between the said shafts, and a rope connected with the platform and passing over a pulley, the said rope carrying a Weight for counterbalancing the platform and figure, substantially as described.

JOHN A. ANIELLO.

Witnesses:

E. G. VVELLs, JAS. T. WoLFE. 

